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Commentary – Religion and the state in China
… religion just as it governs other areas of life. So when new legislation on religion comes out, everyone gets a little … of speculation in Chinese and Western media as to what the new legislation might mean. An article by veteran … China-watcher and religion expert Ian Johnson in the New York Times offered a downbeat interpretation, citing …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
2002 Frederick Douglass Prize
… $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for Best Work on Slavery (New York) - Two major new books on slavery—the first a detailed portrait of one … look at the voyage of a single slave ship that also sheds new light on the multinational character of the slave trade …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
2012 Frederick Douglass Prize
… Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize New Haven, Conn.   — James Sweet, Professor of History at the … reception sponsored by the Gilder   Lehrman   Institute in New York City in February 2013. In addition t o Sweet, the … Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale University Press). This year’s finalists …
South Asian Studies Council
5 Questions with Jane Mikkelson, Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar
… how Persian poetry in the early modern period fostered a new style of interdisciplinary thinking. This was a time when … seminar on bilingualism and literary imagination and a new course on neurodiversity and world literature. Next year … offers many ways to do just that. How has it been to be in New Haven? I’m still not sure what the best pizza place …
MacMillan Center
Memorialization unmoored: The virtualization of material mediums of social memory
… and the digital, the ethical issues of representation, and new directions and developments in the collection, … a wide range of issues including the potential pitfalls of new high tech methods to present Holocaust testimonies, as … and families of victims, but on the other hand it opens up new uncertainties, vulnerabilities, and questions over which …